Hemingway House & Property Tour With 6 Toed Cats - Up In Key West Lighthouse & Lunch At Blue Heaven
Key West January 2023
Transcript
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here has a recording of this Friday
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January 6th
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2022 our last day here in Key West there
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is a leaf blower right over there
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we are in front of the Hemingway House
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right Mama yes yes
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home of the sixth toad cats so they say
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cats with six toes they do not accept
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credit cards only cash no credit cards
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says here
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also they're very very strict on parking
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someone just gotta someone just got told
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to move over there you got the
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Duval Street leaf blower
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no credit cards allowed 18 admission so
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I think today what I'm gonna do go in
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here
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also maybe possibly go up into the
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lighthouse
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right up top there and gonna walk over
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to Blue Heaven
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it's a real beehive
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of activity down there my mom I don't
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even she's going that way
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I think the entrance is over here though
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okay we found the entrance the entrance
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is over here you're going around the
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other way all right I'm going in you're
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going in and then we're gonna go to Blue
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Heaven possibly Blue Heaven first and
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then maybe I'll go up in those you don't
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want to walk up in the lighthouse right
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I don't think so maybe
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100. that probably yeah it's like
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probably four stories of Lighthouse
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there
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so we'll do the we'll do the Hemingway
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house we'll do Blue Heaven and then
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we'll just maybe walk around do ball a
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little bit
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our last egg this is our last full day
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tomorrow we're going to be leaving and
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going back to Central Florida and get
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the shots one more time before we go do
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a little shopping we're inviting you to
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join me and my mom shall you yes it's
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also kind of interesting they still have
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the the six foot kind of Mark
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okay going in ticket booth is right here
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here is the Hemingway House and I guess
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they probably have these so the you know
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people can't get in or maybe the
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six-toed cats
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either no credit cards 18 I also just
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realized I stated 2022
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instead of 2023.
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always have six does he have six toes
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does it look like me
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it's four four toes okay maybe they're
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supposed to be five toe cats Hello Kitty
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also I realized when I did the intro I
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stated
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2022 instead of 23. it usually takes a
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while
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remember back in the day were you still
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write [\h__\h] do you still write checks for
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church and for putting my blonde guy in
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for a guy that sprays on the line that's
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about honest so do you ever ask does it
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take you like a few months before you
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start writing to the next the correct
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year I always I used to do that I always
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like I always say the wrong year for
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about three months before you start
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getting used to say in the new year yep
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I'm looking for supposedly some of them
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have extra toes
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there's a lot of cats in here well right
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here too
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we have our tickets two of us admit one
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plus two times two
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you're gonna start a tour right now if
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you're another guy oh sounds good thank
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you on the right hand side
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adjustable all right thank you
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foreign
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so just so you know you pet the cats all
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you want they do love the attention here
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uh we just don't pick them up never ends
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well you pick them up take all the
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pictures you want as well and of course
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especially in a small group like this
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ask all the questions if you want um a
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lot of times it's 30 people at a time in
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here so this is this is a great
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environment for that anybody been here
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before
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1851 East 10th was a salvage record
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which was a pirate
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so if you wrecked your boat he would
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rescue you in order stuff
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and sell it all back to you for about
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four times the rate because that was the
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rack of the day 200 years ago and
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the thing is when he passed away his
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family passed away before him and the
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yellow fever operator so it all this
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wealth with no will so when I sat here
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for 40 years and it was her uncle a
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little stop fighter that bought them a
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car for a wedding present but they were
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going to drive north from here well they
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say here because it's amazing it doesn't
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snow here and it's Uncle dust bought the
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house for them as well for eight
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thousand dollars
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40 years worth of back taxes at the time
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this is the real old man it's Gregorio
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Fuentes it's Earth's fishing buddy from
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Cuba and it's going to be 104 and the
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character Santiago was all based on him
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and since he lived until 2002 that's 50
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years past the book almost half his life
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goes after he was hurt
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did you show up for us this morning
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you might
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challenge show off course good guy show
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off
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come on
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maybe shove your toes there you go
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there's those really great double thumbs
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and the six toes on the back as well he
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follows the pizza Paws because you're
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big enough he has a gift from the boys
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from Stanley Dexter who was a naval
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captain and they were considered good
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luck on ships because of all those toes
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they caught the rats on the ships is
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that extra claws that's why the Navy
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bred them kept them on the boat
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here hang out with the guests hang on
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here besides besides all the cats
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Ernest had a lot of lives this is the
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other half of the ball here you have to
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remember how famous he was because it's
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when all those books were being made
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it's really handsome excuse me though
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like obviously popular because there are
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four wives on the wall with with a lot
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of overlap between them here
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so here we go all four of them
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started with Hadley Richardson she's a
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journalist in Chicago Board
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correspondent but she was kind of a
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super fan and she stopped it she tracked
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it down with sloppy joes
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they ran off together and corresponded
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in the Spanish Civil War that was for
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about 10 months
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it was the first cap
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that all the other cats and generations
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of this cap I believe I understood the
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guide correctly going up the stairs now
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ERS this is what he had too many
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martinis downtown
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and when he got back to his apartment
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his toilet didn't flush because he was
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pulling the wrong chain he
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Skylight out of the ceiling so it
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cracked him on the head there and with
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all those attention problems the first
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had nine documented concussions over the
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course of his life this is why this is
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an important picture because that's kind
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of where it all started
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but
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Roberta
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but everybody's computer and he's moving
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up or not there because that's the real
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sloppy joe a water shell attack you got
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227 shrapnel fragments and his legs and
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back
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that's what left him stuck in bed for
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six months while he recovered isn't the
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gate off of the Spanish Monastery about
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400 years old
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Ernest made a big donation brought this
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bag so it's handyman customs of the bed
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with the depression
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add Windows here in this corner though
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this corner is important because you can
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see the catwalk that used to be here
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sounds like a joke
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but it's real Ernest built this so he
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could run straight across and type that
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it's that he woke up every day he was
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obsessively dedicated to that morning
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schedule and here
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and he he truly was inspired at Sloppy
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Joe's
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anybody Went To Have and Have Not
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that one they don't let us read it in
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high school because it's about the
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depression it's all the stories he heard
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from criminals at the bar he's changed
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everybody's names
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and then the White House around this way
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great shot of the lighthouse
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they opened up at nine anybody get to do
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that before
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that on your list this is really worth
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checking out
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of course they're just playing they
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built that just for him to find his way
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home every night no matter how much
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research he did he was stretch it out a
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it's also where James Bond was shot at
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from and Licensed to Kill if anybody
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remembers that scene right here on this
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balcony they chased him through the
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house that's where stunt man jumped the
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rail oh really
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wow James Bond Timothy Dalton right yeah
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Timothy why did they build the
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lighthouse in the middle of town though
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this was the shore that time
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was the Navy that came in after World
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War II dredged out all the shallow water
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they built the Truman Annex and did a
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huge expansion
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of the Navy shipyard so the island is
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just twice the size
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that it used to be we could see all
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those changes from the front here we're
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gonna come around here and we have Etta
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James over here
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does she have six toes too on the front
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there yeah hers points straight she's a
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climber she's treated
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there we go yeah you get a really good
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shot over here
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you come back around the corner here
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and feel everything changed
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see about how to reset across it's not
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these fans
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said Watcher head right here this is
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like you gotta bend down for this
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kitchen and behind us there was an
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outdoor Cookhouse from the 1800s and
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you're right that's that catwalk that's
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built on top of because we were just
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there it stretched straight across it's
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all gone because there was hurricane in
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1948 blew everything out
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these walls are fine because they're 18
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inches thick they're solid Coral
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Limestone and that block that's on the
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porch back there that's that's the one
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left over in front of the basement
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you have the only basement in all of the
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kids here because they just built the
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house are so important that's where his
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wine cellar was and now because of the
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wine cellars down there
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does it hurt this is the safest place
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and they got divorced coffee they didn't
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throw a lot of stuff
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that's why everything is still here but
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the big thing is we have this personal
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typewriter this is the
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and it's kind of Infamous I know some of
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you haven't been here before
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anybody remember the story
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you know what this really is
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it's true we're not making it up
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this used to be the urinal with sloppy
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joes wow
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cannot see it exactly obvious once you
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know what happened is
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sloppy joes used to be where Captain
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Tony's is now
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when their rent went up they had a big
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moving party
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Ernest figured he'd spent a fortune down
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that drain he more than paid for it so
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he took it out of the trash
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put it in the yard because Pauline was
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bugging for a fountain here she clearly
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wasn't happy about this so she disguised
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it with the olive oil jar Spanish tile
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she loved her tile
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but it still is what it is they were
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both really stubborn about this she even
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tried to sabotage it once with a bucket
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of red paint
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which is why it's called the battle of
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the pools it's his little pool versus
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her revenge pool over here
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she clearly won with this one oh my God
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uh went to Church Hill they were all
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hanging out with us this morning I
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really I'm not making them up that
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really is their name
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so amazing Bulldog this is still the
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largest residential pool in the Key West
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you can't even get a permit to build one
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this big
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proud of it as Pauline was
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Ernest never won a pool because I
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figured you just swam in the ocean until
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he took Martha Spain while he caught him
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and when she did she tore it out she
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gave it away the bordello around the
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corner that's where Blue Heaven is a lot
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of sketchy stuff went on there back in
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the day
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and she spent 10 months twenty thousand
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dollars
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in his absence putting in his surprise
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pool that's about 350 Grand in today's
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money and that really is it right there
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that's the 1934 penny
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from his pocket
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and she loved this thing she showed this
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off all the time it was the high life of
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a pool party every weekend she could
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always tell her yes she can have all the
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wives he wanted she had earnest
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okay she's very proud of us here
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the tour itself is 30 minutes about a
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half hour I think it's kind of nice is
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to give you the guided tour they give
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you some info and then they let you just
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wander around so some places should go
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and do a guided tour and it's over here
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quick little 30 minute tour kind of
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gives you a footnote version well you
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know excellent explains a few things and
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then you're allowed to go around and do
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your own thing which I really like
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because some places you can't do that
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sometimes it's just guided to work and
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then you're in and out once you're done
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with the 30 minute thing you can just
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kind of wander around look at the cats
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and then read all the placards at your
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own Leisure which is nice the Arty
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can I hold you
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know what you are let me Archie
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ve
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I'm not the cat person
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Kitty
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okay they instructed us you can't pick
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up the cast but if you're sitting and
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the cat goes in your lap
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then that's fine except Archie is
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ignoring us yes he is
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you did
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I'm a animal lover they come to me but
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this one's like a Corporal come here not
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doing it
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here we go oh how sweet
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is such a sweetheart
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yes you are worked out pretty good I
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think obviously I think talking to the
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cat didn't really help and we just kind
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of let her let the cat do its own thing
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that's when it came very Catholic right
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one of Hemingway's original typewriters
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that he typed 70
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of his books on
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is on site right up here
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so I'm pretty excited about seeing this
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the reason I didn't take the tour up
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here is because it's such a small room
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and only a couple people can go in at a
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time but they said we could come back up
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here at our own accord
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inside Hemingways
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riding rooms
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oh thank you so much I appreciate it
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that's the one yeah
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Isn't that cool
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with the windows open it's very Breezy
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in here get that debris
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that's all it is yeah
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so evidently this is where the walkway
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that went across from that famous photo
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I love the sound of bamboo crackling
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I think this is probably one of the more
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notable places whenever you say you're
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going to Key West people always suggest
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a few places to go obviously the
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southernmost point buoy
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in the Hemingway House maybe two in the
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most always you know a couple few other
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things but this is one seeing the extra
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toad cats I think of six toes and the
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Hemingway House
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definitely definitely big spots as the
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guide was stating that Hemingway didn't
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originally build this house it was Ace
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of foresight Tift
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and says here
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excavated 18 inch Blocks made of
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limestone Rock to construct the premises
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this is one of those pieces here now
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part of the guide you could not go down
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into the basement down here
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let's check it out
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two cisterns provided water for the
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house electricity was added in 1899.
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sweetie
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hey
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57 cats here on property
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it's a good angle here
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my mom got a great foot with the camera
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like almost posing yeah the cat the cat
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itself was almost posing
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posing for the camera as well looking
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right to the lens
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it's territory
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57 cats here this is great when they
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laid down some of the new concrete the
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cats all the Paw Print paw prints all
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over the cats have made their Mark here
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oh yeah the way the pump is
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again a photo of the first six-toed cat
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here Hemingway boys named a kitten Snow
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White and himaway West Road one cat just
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leads to another
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Snow White was the name of the cat very
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interesting and then over here some of
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the ones that have passed over the years
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are also still here on property
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including Adriana
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Novak
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Tigger
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Willard Scott a lot of these were named
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after
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celebrities
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Pandora
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Frank Sinatra the cat
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Bernie the cat
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Gremlin the cat Mrs whiskers one thing
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about this area it's not just the house
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that's kind of a attraction all its own
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but it's also the gardens
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as you walk through here very beautiful
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would you live here
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do you live in the Hemingway House
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it's like a little tropical tropical
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Paradise back in here
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okay so here's the kennels over here
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wow
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that is so cool
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are they all fixed so they won't have
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babies
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uh-huh
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yeah so you try to get more of the six
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toes
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babies if they if they all carry the
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gene so when we um when we hold back a
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father with the father and mother
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yes it'd be nice if they had the six
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toes whether they don't it's okay
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because it's a recessive theme and a lot
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of times
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they'll just pop out like she doesn't
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have six toes but her two
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all right gonna stop inside the
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Hemingway home
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bookstore too
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quite an assortment of products in here
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as well Hemingway bust
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all kind of different merchandise
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including you know
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little knickknacks and magnets and
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keychains
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all the books he has written here in
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hard and soft back
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as well as t-shirts things like that it
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is one interesting photo here which I
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think might be here at the house let's
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see if I can match this one photo up of
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him on the porch looking outward at the
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Lighthouse
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this is pretty interesting this photo
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was taken from the lighthouse Circa 1932
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and also not only is this the largest
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residential pool hotels have bigger
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pools but this is the first and only
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pool within 100 miles of Key West when
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it was first built how cool is that to
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evacuate the pool so the work had to be
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done my hand with picks and suede
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cameras from what I'm what I could tell
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is this is the spot a lot more Foley is
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now is growing up in front of the
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lighthouse but this is where that photo
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was taken I'm going to stand there and
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lean against the same pole
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I think it kind of matches up a little
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bit I don't know if it's probably I
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think it's the same spot
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oh yeah
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there's a lot that you see right now the
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lighthouse is
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very much grown over yeah so you can't
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see as much of it that's pretty neat
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though
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that that palm tree is not there no more
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either
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well worth the price of admission amount
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of time we spend in here we're in there
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quite a while the 30 minute guided and
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then at our own Leisure probably for at
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least another hour hour and a half okay
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now walking over to Blue Heaven got some
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little wooden cutouts here of Hemingway
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as well at this place called Coast Live
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by it this little gift shop we're
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walking kind of walking past Sidewalk
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Ends and eyes blocks if you go nine
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blocks that way past the Hemingway House
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which is on the next block you reach the
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southernmost point in the continental
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United States take a look at this car
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with all the sea life painted on the
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side of it
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all right so over on this side I see the
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sign Blue Heaven bicycle parking says
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Blue Heaven bicycle parking right here
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I like the Like the quote here you don't
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have to die to get you don't have to die
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to get here to Blue Heaven kind of
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curious to see what kind of weight
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there's going to be for this there's
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actually quite a few people here all
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right they said it's going to take about
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an hour wait time so you're going to
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alert us when your table is ready so
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we're just going to kind of wander
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around
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until we get the notification to go back
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just kind of walking down the
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the road here I believe this is Duval
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yeah this is Duvall or no this is this
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is Whitehead
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hello chickens
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how's it going the Key West Lighthouse
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and Keepers quarters Museum which is
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just across the street
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from the Hemingway House I'm kind of
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glad we got in there early because the
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line is getting pretty lengthy over at
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the Hemingway House
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States
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entirely within city limits
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Key West Florida
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yeah 88 steps to the top so obviously
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we'll just go in you won't have to walk
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up to the Top If you don't want to you
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can just see all the quarters and
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everything else
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now the original Key West Lighthouse was
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destroyed by a hurricane in 1846 so
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evidently this is not the very very
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first one built in 1825 so this must
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have been the second one that was here
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when Hemingway lived
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right across the street
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this brick Tower the second Key West
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Lighthouse was completed in 1848. okay
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that makes sense though Key West the Key
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West Lighthouse was open to the public
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as a museum in 1970
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two so you got the placemat there with
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some lighthouses on it got this big
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metal door that they have opened for
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guests and then there's the stairwell
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here and quite a bit of an echo that
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goes up against it oh my gosh you have
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to climb up this
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all right just about
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reach the top
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exit towers and storm or thunder
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approaches now as much as I want to go
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up here and kind of like the wick on
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that absolutely no one is allowed Beyond
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that point
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I'm gonna walk out here
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onto the area
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outside
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yeah you really can oh wow there's a
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cruise ship over there
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there's a southernmost point
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over there
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I believe I recognize that sphere from
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the navy base
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oh good view of the Hemingway House down
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that's awesome from the ground level
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looking up at this you wouldn't think
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you'd have this kind of view up here but
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just climbing 100 feet 88 look there's a
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bird going by a bird's eye perspective
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right down there
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you can see all across the island here
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church building down there
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there's all these little placards kind
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of explaining
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what things are
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and then the lighthouse Keeper's House
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is right down there there's mom
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I almost want to start singing It's a
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Brazzle Dazzle day
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just like lampy from Pete's Dragon
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man I love Pete's Dragon
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I've always wanted to go up on a
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lighthouse like this and I'm trying to
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recall if I ever have I don't think I
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ever have been on a proper up to a
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proper light who was this
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yeah you can't go up here either I got
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this blocked off too
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if you were to go up here you'd be full
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on lampy Style
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that song is wow that's windy
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a lifetime of joy in just a few hours
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that's what happens when it's a Brazzle
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Dazzle day I don't even know if you can
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hear me with the wind how it does
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and Elliot and Pete
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you know Elliot that was the name of the
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dragon and Pete's Dragon he lit the wick
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with his fire at the end
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that's how he test this with the noise
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he made and it echoes a lot through here
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I'm sure people at the bottom probably
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just heard my the only impression I
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probably thought what the heck is that
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sound is that a sewing machine yep 20
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minutes the whole time you saw a machine
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the piano over there people even use
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sewing machines anymore
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people still sew but um I know used to
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sew a lot I did
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a lot of y'all's clothes
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this is the original furniture from the
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lighthouse Keepers the bethels back in
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the day still here this wedding dress
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was at least dress worn by Jenny or
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Jenny Bethel daughter of Mary William
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Bethel who was a Lighthouse Keeper she
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was married at the Lighthouse here where
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I'm standing in 1911 and this is her
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dress that's over
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113 years old here there's even a photo
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of all the Bethel families right here in
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front of that entrance that I just
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walked into this gentleman up here
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almost looks like is it like a haunting
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version of the ghost of Abraham Lincoln
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looks like Abe Lincoln right there
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I don't know maybe like to figure out of
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the bethels but it's just kind of like
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like a haunting photo this is kind of
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looking down inside of it
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that is so neat
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very thick glass you can see how how
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thick they are all right we are exiting
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through this way take a look at this
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thing that is the original up there
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yeah the lens from the sombrero key
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that is amazing huge
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I mean this thing is like 12 feet tall
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so here's like the other ones I kind of
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showed at the other
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the other building is they see mom's
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standing there and this is the size of
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it in comparison okay our table's still
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not ready yeah they said just to go over
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here across the street and wait over
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here so got a table in the waiting area
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of the thistler area with like a little
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scuba scuba diver over here some people
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playing ping-pong over here there's some
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fish down here some murals of
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mermaids
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I've heard good things about this blue
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happen place and here's the photo mom
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took from the ground level looking up at
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me so you can kind of see me uh kind of
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zoom in here see if you can see me
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waving over here look you can see me
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right there waving
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88 stairs up 100 feet which mom did not
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do industrial engineering stuff there
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was no elevator and it was it was tight
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quarters people were walking down while
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I was walking up so you had to kind of
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shift to the side it was an experience
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it's a little afternoon right now and
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just kind of looking at the menu before
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we go over there they serve breakfast on
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2 30 they close down at 2 30 then they
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reopen at five for dinner right now it's
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a little bit after afternoon but not
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sure if I'm gonna get breakfast or I'm
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gonna get dinner but they have so we've
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already missed out on their [\h__\h] with
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very good pancakes they served them till
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noon but everything else is available
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Blue Heaven Benedict big Bakery fresh
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homemade granola breakfast sandwich a
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rooster special They also themed the
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breakfast of the lunchroom fighting with
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the roosters there's gonna be some
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chickens back in there your favorite
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omelette you can have you made your own
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way shrimp and grits and a bunch of a la
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carte auction pie does but now that it's
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afternoon host noon will be able to get
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any of these items we might go with some
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lunch vegetarian black bean soup I'm
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kind of leaning towards the loaded Bowl
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which has black beans rice Romaine
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coleslaw kind of interesting they have
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romaine and coleslaw mixed together
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salsa sour cream cheddar cheese avocado
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also Caesar salad anything on here
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that's like jumping out of Yuma
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still looking
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like cheeseburger sounds good pasture
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raised beef served with shaved Romaine a
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little red onion and pickles served with
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slaw a lot of slaw here
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Andy's grilled sharp cheddar cheese and
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tomato sandwich and we have now been
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placed in here they got some live
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entertainment as well lunch in the shade
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has started it is past noon I think I am
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going to go with a vegetarian black bean
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and the loaded Bowl we got the bar over
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here with a little bit of a water tower
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and just a neat little Vibe through here
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oh look down here there's a bird kind of
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walking around just like a bird right
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there on the ground this is like a whole
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vibe over here we have started off with
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an appetizer of the soup well I went
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with the bowl Tom went with the cup and
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also instead of getting the sodas or
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anything like that we went with water
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right here with the water here we can
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refill ourselves a little cheese on
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there and this is the black bean with
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black bean right
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um
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a lot of chickens walking around in here
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too so we've seen quite a few chickens
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just kind of strutting their stuff with
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their youngins kind of walking through
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the courtyard and all that through here
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too which is kind of a nice Vibe all
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right I gotta say this is the soup is
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amazing what'd you think of yourself
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it's very good soup is great
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very good really really good soup and
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now the entrees have showed up I got my
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salad here with cornbread and you got
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what do they call a Tennessee Burger
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Tennessee cheeseburger and pickles it's
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kind of interesting too because this has
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romaine lettuce but then also slaw which
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is kind of a neat neat thing they got
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Tomatoes got the pepper on there but
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yeah I gotta say the the
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black bean soup was awesome I don't say
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it's the best soup I've ever had but
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it's not putting them probably top ten
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so soon your mama's well I'm talking
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about at a restaurant I'm talking about
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at a restaurant soon
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what do you think of the soup I loved it
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yeah you should get you should you
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should figure out what the recipe is and
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then you can make it as well I probably
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will I loved it I really liked it black
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but who knew black bean soup would be
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that good
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Tennessee Burger
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made in Key West
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I wonder why I saw the Tennessee Burger
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I have no clue yeah we ended up ordering
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one slice of key lime pie I've heard
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they got really good key lime pie here
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we asked the waiter so we'll take two
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slices of Key Lime pies that no no you
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should probably hold off and just wait
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until it arrives and then share it so we
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asked for Two Plates and we got one key
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lime pie to share between the two of us
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because it's kind of had an interesting
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like
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like foam on the top of it like a
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chocolatey looking topping to it I'm not
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really sure if it is chocolate but it
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has like a chocolate looking topping to
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it as well and there's the chickens is
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it what is that what's on the top of it
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that is
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brown oh what's it called meringue
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meringue okay it's a meringue all that
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is is egg whites okay see I don't know I
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don't know anything about food egg white
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and sugar
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stopped off over here gonna see if we
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can find
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some of the famous clever headstones and
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notable people that are here
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now a lot of these are kind of tough to
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find
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but here is Joe Russell
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also known as sloppy joe
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you know the bar Bears his name
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friend of Hemingway and it was also his
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fishing guide Joseph Russell
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born in 1889
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those lost to sight memory deer
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sloppy joe Russell
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arguably
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key West's most famous bartender
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sloppy joe
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probably no bearing to the song
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or the the burger I think of the Adam
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Sandler's lawnmower also thinking the
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sandwich
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I also find it interesting is some of
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them have roofs over the top of them
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so you see this metal roof is kind of
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rusted out
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over the top of all the plots
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and one of the most famous and most
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photographed ones here
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it belongs to BP Roberts
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try going up walking up to this iguana a
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couple times and then he runs off I'm
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gonna try to zoom in
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there's another one
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watching the planes go by
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airports near here
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there's a lot of iguanas in here kind of
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abundant here
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hasn't seen quite a few just catching
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some rice
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yeah they like that sun hey you're at
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the pool yesterday and one just walked
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right by the pool